Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and UNSW co-lead of Work Integrated Learning Community of Practice. She also serves as the co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at UNSW. Sara’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in sustainable and resilient cities (SDG11), smart cities, infrastructure, urban strategy development and construction. Sara teaches and supervises students on City Analytics, GIS, Construction Informatics and BIM relevant topics at undergrad and postgrad levels at UNSW. She is currently serving as an Editorial Board member for Nature/Scientific Reports, Sustainability (MDPI) and Buildings journals all Q1. She is also one of the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award from the International Society for Digital Earth, in collaboration with Taylor & Francis and the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals. Sara completed her PhD in Geomatics Engineering at UNSW.